Extractions: Grandi, Guido Note: the creators of the Galileo Project and this catalogue cannot answer email on genealogical questions. 1. Dates Born: Cremona, 1 Oct. 1671 Died: Pisa, 4 July 1742 Dateinfo: Dates Certain Lifespan: 2. Father Occupation: Laborer The father was a laborer. The word is "operaio," workman, and I have no idea what precisely Tenca (who used it) referred to. The father could well have been a minor artisan of some sort. In my view, to say laborer in the late 17th century was to say poor. 3. Nationality Birth: Italian Career: Italian Death: Italian 4. Education Schooling: Religous Order Grandi studied initally at the Jesuit school in Cremona. In 1687, after joining the Camaldolesan order, he studied philosophy at their monastery in Ferrara. In 1693 he moved on to their monastery in Rome to study theology, and there he also took up an interest in the history of the order. I have come to feel I must count extended education within one of the religious orders as the equivalent of a B.A. I suspect that there was also the equivalent of a D.D., but I did not find mention of such. 5. Religion

Grandi, Guido grandi, guido (16711742). Italian mathematician who worked on the definitionof curves. He devised the curves now known as the 'versiera http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/G/Grandi/1.html

Extractions: Italian mathematician who worked on the definition of curves. He devised the curves now known as the 'versiera', the 'rose', and the 'cliela', and his theory of curves also comprehended the means of finding the equations of curves of known form. He was mainly responsible, in addition, for introducing calculus into Italy 1703. In his fascination with the study of curves, Grandi was influenced first by English scientist Isaac Newton. In 1728 he published his complete theory in Fleores geometrica, an attempt (among other things) to define geometrically the curves that have the shapes of flowers, particularly multipetalled roses.

Grandi Biography of guido grandi (16711742) guido grandi was educated first at the Jesuit college in Cremona. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Grandi.html

Extractions: Guido Grandi was educated first at the Jesuit college in Cremona. He became a member of the Order of the Camaldolese in 1687. This Order, an offshoot of the Benedictine Order, was founded about 1012 at Camaldoli near Arezzo, Italy. The monastery and the hermitage formed one unit in this Order and Grandi studied at one of these units in Ferrara. Then, in 1693, he went to another monastery of the Camaldolese Order in Rome. The following year, Grandi became a teacher of philosophy and theology at the Camaldolese monastery in Florence. Up to this time he had shown little interest in mathematics but now his thoughts turned in that direction. However he continued to teach philosophy being appointed professor in Rome in 1700, then going to Pisa again as professor of philosophy. Grandi's first mathematical appointment came in 1707 when he became mathematician to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Cosimo III de' Medici. In 1709 he visited England and clearly impressed the English scientists since he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1714 Grandi was appointed Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pisa.

Extractions: First edition of Grandi's important work on clelian and rodonean curves. 'Grandi's reputation rests especially on the curves that the named 'rodonea' and 'clelia', after the Greek word for 'rose' and the Countess Clelia Borromea, respectively. He arrived at these curves in attempting to define geometrically the curves that have the shape of flowers, in particular the multi-leaved rose... Whereas analytic geometry now teaches the study of curves with given equations, Grandi here solved the inverse problem of determining the equations of curves having a preestablished form. The clelias are curves inscribed in a spherical zone, and their projection on a base plane of the zone yields the rodonea' (A. Natucci in DSB).

Grandi Luigi guido grandi. Born 1 Oct 1671 in Cremona, Italy Died 4 July 1742 in Pisa,Italy. guido grandi was educated first at the Jesuit college in Cremona. http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Grandi.html

Extractions: Guido Grandi was educated first at the Jesuit college in Cremona. He became a member of the Order of the Camaldolese in 1687. This Order, an offshoot of the Benedictine Order, was founded about 1012 at Camaldoli near Arezzo, Italy. The monastery and the hermitage formed one unit in this Order and Grandi studied at one of these units in Ferrara. Then, in 1693, he went to another monastery of the Camaldolese Order in Rome. The following year, Grandi became a teacher of philosophy and theology at the Camaldolese monastery in Florence. Up to this time he had shown little interest in mathematics but now his thoughts turned in that direction. However he continued to teach philosophy being appointed professor in Rome in 1700, then going to Pisa again as professor of philosophy. Grandi's first mathematical appointment came in 1707 when he became mathematician to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Cosimo III de' Medici. In 1709 he visited England and clearly impressed the English scientists since he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1714 Grandi was appointed Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pisa.